{{An influential weekly newspaper whose staff rebelled to protest heavy-handed censorship by Chinese government officials published as normal Thursday after a compromise that called for relaxing some intrusive controls but left lingering ill-will among some reporters and editors.}}<\/p>\n
The latest edition of the Southern Weekly bore no hints of the dispute that erupted last week over a New Year’s editorial that was rewritten to praise the Communist Party, driving some staff to stop work in protest. <\/p>\n
Still fuming, some editors and reporters tried late Wednesday to insert a carefully worded commentary praising the newspaper as a tribune of reform, but were rebuffed by management, an editor said.<\/p>\n
Academics spoke of a coming reckoning by authorities to reassert control at the Southern Weekly and any other media that might take encouragement.<\/p>\n
“Overall, the authorities do not want this situation to spread,” Peng Peng, a political science researcher at the Guangdong province Social Sciences Academy said.<\/p>\n
The weeklong fracas at the Southern Weekly evolved quickly from a row over censorship at one newspaper to a call for free speech and political reform across China, handing an unexpected test to the party leadership headed by Xi Jinping just two months after he took office.<\/p>\n
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